You may want to consider this part 2 of the ‘what’s shakin’ blog since it will deal with most of the issues raised there-in.
First off. What film did 90% of the the cinema going audience see that I didn’t? This is one of the best reviewed movies of the year and it’s terrible. Kurtzman and Orci are being praised for their ‘clever’ screenplay when, in actual fact, it’s so moronic it’s almost offensive. It falls apart as you’re watching it and has some ‘coincidences’ that i’d be embarrased to write in a blog far less a $5 million dollar screenplay. These two monkeys are a prime example of Hollywood mistaking ‘good box-office’ with ‘talent’. I wouldn’t let them write my shopping list for fear that they’d dumb it down and add a comedy sidekick to it.
Next up. JJ Abrams. Please send this guy back to TV where he belongs. Really. If you don’t know anything about shooting a film for the big screen then stick with TV. Once again, Abrams is getting high praise and is mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg (just NO). For what? Shooting an epic sci-fi film like an episode of TV. The whole thing, including the space battles, is shot in close-ups and mid-shots. With a hand-held camera. Which shakes about to signify ‘excitement’. FUCK. OFF. WITH. THIS. This is not exciting, it’s bad film-making. If you don’t understand shot composition, staging and editing then you shouldn’t be here. You could have handed a camera to a monkey and let him loose on the set and got the same footage. It’s all cut so fast it doesn’t make any difference anyway because you can’t follow the action, it just pummels you with images.
My theory for all this nonsense is that the rise of quality TV shows has been picked up on by Hollywood. Being Hollywood, they haven’t realised that most of that quality comes from the excellent writing and so hire the Directors/creators to make movies. The TV directors jump at their big chance and proceed to shoot their movie exactly the same way as they would a TV show. On the Big Screen, this equals an ‘epic fail’. Audiences complain about feeling nauseous and getting headaches. Audiences are confused and can’t follow the action, but, the film makes loads of money and Hollywood keeps churning them out.
There needs to be some sort of test set up that potential directors have to pass before being allowed to make a movie. It sounds like a silly idea but ask yourself this – Would you hire someone to do a 100 million dollar job for you without interviewing them fully and making DAMN sure they had the skills to do the job professionally?
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The Star Trek debacle.
You may want to consider this part 2 of the ‘what’s shakin’ blog since it will deal with most of the issues raised there-in.
First off. What film did 90% of the the cinema going audience see that I didn’t? This is one of the best reviewed movies of the year and it’s terrible. Kurtzman and Orci are being praised for their ‘clever’ screenplay when, in actual fact, it’s so moronic it’s almost offensive. It falls apart as you’re watching it and has some ‘coincidences’ that i’d be embarrased to write in a blog far less a $5 million dollar screenplay. These two monkeys are a prime example of Hollywood mistaking ‘good box-office’ with ‘talent’. I wouldn’t let them write my shopping list for fear that they’d dumb it down and add a comedy sidekick to it.
Next up. JJ Abrams. Please send this guy back to TV where he belongs. Really. If you don’t know anything about shooting a film for the big screen then stick with TV. Once again, Abrams is getting high praise and is mentioned in the same breath as Spielberg (just NO). For what? Shooting an epic sci-fi film like an episode of TV. The whole thing, including the space battles, is shot in close-ups and mid-shots. With a hand-held camera. Which shakes about to signify ‘excitement’. FUCK. OFF. WITH. THIS. This is not exciting, it’s bad film-making. If you don’t understand shot composition, staging and editing then you shouldn’t be here. You could have handed a camera to a monkey and let him loose on the set and got the same footage. It’s all cut so fast it doesn’t make any difference anyway because you can’t follow the action, it just pummels you with images.
My theory for all this nonsense is that the rise of quality TV shows has been picked up on by Hollywood. Being Hollywood, they haven’t realised that most of that quality comes from the excellent writing and so hire the Directors/creators to make movies. The TV directors jump at their big chance and proceed to shoot their movie exactly the same way as they would a TV show. On the Big Screen, this equals an ‘epic fail’. Audiences complain about feeling nauseous and getting headaches. Audiences are confused and can’t follow the action, but, the film makes loads of money and Hollywood keeps churning them out.
There needs to be some sort of test set up that potential directors have to pass before being allowed to make a movie. It sounds like a silly idea but ask yourself this – Would you hire someone to do a 100 million dollar job for you without interviewing them fully and making DAMN sure they had the skills to do the job professionally?
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